With me isjeremy cook whos chief economist of the Payments Company world first. Welcome back. Thank you for being with us. We begin with the independent and this announcement by north korea that they will hold talks with south korea. It is nice to see good news from that area of the world for once when we are not talking about rocket test for anything. We do have the Winter Olympics in south korea in the next few weeks. This is north and south are getting together to hopefully begina are getting together to hopefully begin a dialogue about a demilitarisation of the elements of the relationship between the two countries you need to ask why now, whether this is purely to get a few figure skaters from north korea into the competition or whether this is more about a lasting peace and whether or not donald trump has had an influence on the conversation. Donald trump certainly things he does have an influence, no surprise. Do you think that is the case . Analysts a re do you think that is th
The commute is getter busier, steve. As you know, this is one of the peak hours of the commute. 22 minutes between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze doesnt seem like a long time. It is a little on the light side. By this time we have 35 to 40 minute delay. That is good as you drive in. At the bay bridge we had a crash westbound right near the gore point of the hov lanes. That is clear. One vehicle is still out there but traffic is moving by. It has improved. This is a look at interstate 880 in oakland. And northbound traffic is moving okay. We have something going on the san mateo bridge. A couple of cars may have gotten into it on the right hand side there. You may not be able to see it behind this pole here. A little bit of activity. Traffic on the san mateo bridge approach is slow as a result. That crash was in the lanes for a bit and traffic is slow. Dumbarton bridge traffic is normal. 7 01. Lets go back to the desk. Berkeley has become the first city in the United States
Tell us more about how this works . Well, jeff it is very difficult for us to get access to yemen at all. We are only there for around two dates. We were accompanied by officials who decided what we could, couldnt see. So that constrained us as journalists. In one place we couldnt go was aacross the front line into houthi territories where the air strikes have the been landing and hunger and disease so devastating. Whats jarring about going to yemen is how shockingly poor it is. I mean, 8 Million People on the brink of famine. When, when the countrys neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula are so very rich. Countries like saudi arabia. Some important perspective. Hol williams, thank you. Mike pence left on a five day trip to asia, focused on ratcheting up pressure on north koreas repressive regime. Among his stops, the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics 50 miles from the dmz. Ben tracy is in the host city, pyeongchang. Reporter they have been Holding Drills for months simulating ever
Rebel held areas where ports say the civilian death toll has risen to at least two hundred twenty. Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us the Opening Ceremony of the twenty third winter olympic elim fixes not went away in south korea south korean president hu j. And declare the two thousand and eighteen winter games open with fireworks going off over young chang nearly three thousand athletes from ninety two countries entering the sold out stadium during the Opening Ceremony the games have had to overcome multiple hurdles ahead of Winter Sports most prestigious event the i. O. C. And the athletes will be looking to put all of their troubles behind them and kick off the olympics with a bang. And we have matt herman from sports with us here in studio to talk more about this time at these opening ceremonies are usually pretty spectacular what have you thought about it so far i thought they were very spectacular i mean this is the kind of pageantry that we usually dont see outs
Possession of the switch. But says it is participating, in this investigation. Jeff. Kris van cleave in South Carolina, thank you. We are back in just a moment. Growing up, a lot of people judged me because of the way i look. I thought all asians were good at math. You all look the same to me. No, where are you really from . 9 11 was your fault. How do you see out of such small eyes . Go back to your country. I guess i wish that people knew. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. We are not all the same. This is the cbs overnight news. To date u. S. Military said it has begun shifting its focus in iraq. Now that isis has been evicted from most of the country. That will mean a draw down of american troops from peak of 9,000 to 4,000. Many will be sent to afghanistan. Or kuwait. Iraq and afghanistan may get the headlines, but, right now, there may be no place in the world more dangerous than yemen. A 3yearold civil war is in a stalemate. One side is backed by saudi arabia. The